Theories of democratic legitimacy argue that people who believe the government is well
managed and represents their interests are likely to defend the democratic status quo …

This article reports evidence of misspecification of the measurement model for the index of
emancipative values, a value construct used as a key explanatory variable in many …

With the worldwide wave of democratization, scholars interested in the preservation of the
new democracies dusted off old theories of regime maintenance. While commonly sharing …

While recall recently has gained slightly more attention from academia, the use of recall has
hardly been under systematic scrutiny. Our study tackles this research gap and seeks to …

Este artículo aborda la cultura política de ciudadanos/as de Córdoba en un escenario de
polarización. El objetivo principal es conocer las características de la ciudadanía en función …

The paper provides a new and more explicit formulation of the assumptions needed by the
ordinary ecological regression to provide unbiased estimates and clarifies why violations of …

The main object of this research is to describe social exclusion in a comparative world
perspective. Social exclusion is a main concern worldwide. Non-desirable social groups as …

This book addresses important and under-researched issues such as, the role of young
people in democratization processes, the role of new democracies in sharing their transition …

There has been an extensive debate about the relationship between economic development
and democratisation. One view is that economic development is a pre-requisite for …

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent
chapters of this book. The book deals with East, Southeast, South, and Central Asia, not …